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Value Chains. Yale Braunstein June 2004 . Agenda. What are Value Chains? The Theory of the Firm Market vs. Hierarchies Redesigning the Value Chain Learning Curves. I. Agenda 1. Value Chains? 2. Theory of Firm 3. Market/Hierarchy 4. Redesign 5. Learning Curves. Value Chain.
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Value Chains Yale BraunsteinJune 2004
Agenda • What are Value Chains? • The Theory of the Firm • Market vs. Hierarchies • Redesigning the Value Chain • Learning Curves I. Agenda 1. Value Chains? 2. Theory of Firm 3. Market/Hierarchy 4. Redesign 5. Learning Curves
Value Chain • - a linked set of value creating activities • from raw material to end use product I. Agenda 1. Value Chains? 2. Theory of Firm 3. Market/Hierarchy 4. Redesign 5. Learning Curves Customer Procurement R&D Manufacturing Marketing Distribution Service Value chain Customer Basis Source: Marius Leibold, Gibert J. B. Probst & Michael Gibbert
Vertical Integration natural gas • - the process that links the aquisition of raw material to the sale of the finished product • common parent owns more than one part of the chain • examples: • Oil companies • Fast-food cartons • (tapered v.i.) Ethane Styrene I. Agenda 1. Value Chains? 2. Theory of Firm 3. Market/Hierarchy 4. Redesign 5. Learning Curves Polystyrene Cartons Fast-food restaurants final customer Source: Ernst Maug
Upstream vs. Downstream • - a company that produces its own inputs: • is vertically integrated in the upstream market, • has engaged in backward integration • a company that distributes and markets its own goods • is vertically integrated in the downstream market • has engaged in forward integration • Firms that are not vertically integrated use the market • can contracts replace vertical integration? I. Agenda 1. Value Chains? 2. Theory of Firm 3. Market/Hierarchy 4. Redesign 5. Learning Curves Source: Ernst Maug
The Theory of the Firm Transaction costs approach (Coase): costs providing through the market costs providing from within the firm I. Agenda 1. Value Chains? 2. Theory of Firm 3. Market/Hierarchy 4. Redesign 5. Learning Curves Market‘s costs: negotiations, search and information, policing and enforcement Firm‘s costs: own production, r&d, marketing
Markets vs. Hierarchies Make or buy: • Benefits from outsourcing • Economies of scale of • supplier • 2. Economies of Scope of Supplier • 3. Descipline on the market reduces agency costs • 4. Inefficiencies hidden in the house of department • Costs of outsourcing • Coordination along the vertical chain • 2. Leakage of critical information • 3. Transaction costs I. Agenda 1. Value Chains? 2. Theory of Firm 3. Market/Hierarchy 4. Redesign 5. Learning Curves Source: Ernst Maug
Specialization • Specialization in the vertical chain: • often small firms • knowledge benefits for them • Result: Advantage in competition • Negative: • - may be spread to thin if production in chain grows I. Agenda 1. Value Chains? 2. Theory of Firm 3. Market/Hierarchy 4. Redesign 5. Learning Curves Source: Ernst Maug
Redesign of the Value Chain • Redesign must create dramatic gains in: • cost structure • asset investment • speed of responsiveness to external changes • What has to be redesigned?: • set of activities • the interfaces across the chain I. Agenda 1. Value Chains? 2. Theory of Firm 3. Market/Hierarchy 4. Redesign 5. Learning Curves Source: Marius Leibold, Gibert J. B. Probst & Michael Gibbert
Knowledge and Redesign • Redesign should lead to knowledge about : • the customer base • technologies • market • Redesign: • merges the knowledge of several firms I. Agenda 1. Value Chains? 2. Theory of Firm 3. Market/Hierarchy 4. Redesign 5. Learning Curves Source: Marius Leibold, Gibert J. B. Probst & Michael Gibbert
Learning by doing • reduces costs by acquiring more know-how • through production • Learn about • consumer tastes • operating aquipment and technological rules • organizational processes • Learning can manifests itself in • higher quality • lower costs • better marketing Learning Curves I. Agenda 1. Value Chains? 2. Theory of Firm 3. Market/Hierarchy 4. Redesign 5. Learning Curves Source: Ernst Maug
Learning curves and economies of scale • Related, but not always the same • Role of time and volume Learning Curves / EoS Average Costs ($/unit) Average Costs ($/unit) I. Agenda 1. Value Chains? 2. Theory of Firm 3. Market/Hierarchy 4. Redesign 5. Learning Curves AC1 AC1 AC2 AC2 Q 2Q Cumulative Output Annual Output Source: Ernst Maug
Learning Curves and Strategy Learning Curves / Strategy Product Life Cycle I. Agenda 1. Value Chains? 2. Theory of Firm 3. Market/Hierarchy 4. Redesign 5. Learning Curves Introduction Growth Maturity Decline Source: Ernst Maug
The BCG/McKinsey Matrix Learning Curves / Strategy Relative Market Share Relative Market Growth High Low I. Agenda 1. Value Chains? 2. Theory of Firm 3. Market/Hierarchy 4. Redesign 5. Learning Curves High Rising Star Problem Child Low Cash Cow Dog • Idea: Leverage learning economies by increasing • capacity early in the life cycle • use cash cows to fund: Problem Child, Rising Star • devest dogs Source: Ernst Maug